Posted on 11/15/2009 1:55:13 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The interim leadership in Honduras has vowed to use all security measures at its disposal to ensure a safe election this month.
Leader Roberto Micheletti, installed after President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a June coup, has said he expects November 29 elections to bring an end to the worst political upheaval in Central America in decades.
He vowed to bring the full weight of security forces to bear on the abridged campaign season and the election itself.
'People should know that we are here to provide security,' said armed forces chief General Romeo Vasquez on Saturday.
'We have put our entire intelligence system to work on the subject, with the support of other state institutions, because there are people plotting tricks who do not want there to be elections.'
The comments come days after the United States shifted its position, saying it supported the electoral process.
Washington had earlier demanded that Zelaya be instated before it would back an election.
Zelaya has rebuffed a US bid to revive talks aimed at resolving the crisis after the Honduran Congress failed to vote to reinstate him as president - a crucial part of a deal to end the impasse.
And he complained when Washington said it would support the poll.
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General Romeo Vasquez is one tough hombre. If he says that he will protect the polling places he will do that.
What coup? Zelaya refused to relinquish after he was term-limited out of office - he was constitutionally removed by supreme court review and order. There was no military overthrow.
I wish these news organizations would get their facts straight.
History is written by those who write it.
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